TED’s 10 1: Design to Minimise Waste
11 things we learned about achieving a zero waste fashion industry
(Jenkins, Matthew, 14 January 2015, Guardian Sustainable Business, The Guardian, theguardian.co.uk)
Fashion tries on zero waste design
(Rosenbloom, Stephanie, 13 August 2010, Fashion and Style, The New York Times, nytimes.com)
Waste is so last season (Gould, Hannah, 26 February 2015, Guardian Sustainable Business, The Guardian, theguardian.co.uk)
MA Materials Future 2015 catalogue
A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion, Gwilt, Alison, 2014, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Waste Minimisation Guide for the Textile Industry, Barclay, Susan, Buckley, Chris, University of Natal, South Africa (available online)
Meet Yeohlee, The Zero-Waste Fashion Maven
(Wicker, Alden, 18 February 2015, Fashion, ecocult.com)
Yeohlee Teng Readies Her Company for the Next Chapter
(Feitelberg, Rosemary, 14 September 2015, WWD)
Creator of subtraction cutting. This pattern cutting technique, known as 'subtraction cutting' or 'zero waste', makes the most of the negative spaces that can be opened up in fabric and falls somewhere between traditional pattern cutting and draping - resulting in experimental garments that break from the boundaries of the usual garment shapes.
“Wooden Textiles” project (http://www.burobelen.com/, accessed from 19 October 2015)
Restructional Clothing (http://restructionalclothing.com/about/, accessed from 19 October 2015)
“Why make user-friendly clothes? Because people don’t know how to look after a garment anymore—how to iron properly or fold pieces—which is why they throw stuff away before they need to.”
http://www.purewaste.org/company/about-us.html (accessed from 20 October onwards)
http://www.agencyofdesign.co.uk/projects/design-out-waste/ (accessed from 20 October onwards)
H&M garnment collection intiative
Marks & Sepncer (M&S) “Shwopping” campaign: working with the UK charity Oxfam, M&S encouraged the public to donate clothing for reuse, resale, or remanufacture
EXHIBITIONS
#7 Wasted Matters at the Boijmans in Rotterdam